Ok, so I have Fedora Core 1 installed on my laptop with Windows XP Pro already on it, worked great nothing is bothered in the XP side, and as far as I've seen, Fedora is working good too, aside from this...

I don't seem to be able to get connected to the internet. Now, I have a cable connection, and its routed. I don't think its because of the router, just because I had a previous install of RH9 on my desktop and the internet worked. Something tells me its somewhere in the configuration for the ethernet... It gives me the correct driver (or atleast Im almost sure its the right one) and it says that eth0 is active, but when I go to use mozilla it says that it cannot locate the page, or whatever that error is that pops up.

I was told of the linux equalivant ipconfig command was ifconfig, but unless I'm wrong, or just somehow always typing it wrong, it says that command doesnt exist...

Any ideas?

01-09-2004

big_k105

you have to be in root to run ifconfig. so su over to you root and then run ifconfig and let us know what it says :)

edit: you could also trying running "dhcpd" and then try your internet and see f that works hope this helps

01-09-2004

AndroidI6

ok, I logged in as root, and I ran ifconfig, but I'm not really sure if theres anything I need to do in there, it says my ip is 192.168.0.102
but I still get that error message when I try to surf with mozilla...

As for dhcpd I'm not sure how to run that.

Edit: However it does say DHCP is enabled

01-09-2004

CopperTop

Is that ip for eth0 or for lo?

'Cause 192.168.x.x is an internal ip and you won't be able to hit the net with that. This is usually the ip for your loopback interface (lo).

Thats the output I get
I realize 192.168.2.101 is an internal IP, because my windows IP is 192.168.2.100 because I have a router. I don't know if theres more configuration needed with the router, but it shouldn't. I had RH9 on my desktop machine connected to the same router before and it worked right from the beginning...

ok, I'll give that a try...
I found out how to run that dhcpd command its:

Code:

# dhcpd eth0 right?

then I would only have to put in:

Code:

# ifconfig eth0 up

??

01-09-2004

AndroidI6

actually I'll be away from home for this weekend, so I will have to try that when I get back on sunday. I can try and get on the internet while I'm at the place I'm staying at, only problem is that they have DSL there, and I've heard sometimes its a pain to get DSL working for linux because of the PPPoE. Their ISP doesn't require any type of special program installed on the computer, but I don't know how to configure DSL with Linux

Edit: Thanks for all the help so far!

01-09-2004

CopperTop

Sorry, missed the part about the router... :oops:

01-09-2004

big_k105

actually i think all you have to do is type dhcpd and that will run dhcp for your eth0 thats all i had to do with redhat and it work fine for me. hope that helps :)